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Title: Inside the White House by Ronald Kessler ISBN: 0-671-87919-7 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.55 (22 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Mix one part gossip, one part history, one part scandal rag
Comment: Ronald Kessler is out to shock. And shock he does: learning that Lyndon Johnson kept three secretaries on the payroll to supply him with sexual favors in the Oval Office was a more frightening enough display of presidential arrogance than anything Bill Clinton did. But Kessler is playing sloppy historian and journalist here. One cannot keep on making accusations about every single president in the last forty years, and then not identify the source beyond "a Secret Service Agent said." While there are a number of responsible citations by name, by not revealing his sources more concretely, Kessler violates the rules of the game: always get confirmation from more than one source, and always cite your sources. It's one thing to protect your sources for a daily newspaper, when exposing the source can get him fired or hurt. It's another thing to do it in a book that wants to be taken seriously as history. That said, this is the thinking person's version of the National Enquirer. You simply have to separate out what has been attributed to a reliable source, and what has been reported as hearsay. All in all, a guilty pleasure at its most reliable, and one best used as a source for stories to tell gullible friends. Another sign of our times, where the juiciness of the tale is the top priority.
Rating: 4
Summary: Amazing book about the secrets of the White House
Comment: Heard the taped version of INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE by
Ronald Kessler . . . this is a fun and gossipy, behind-the-scenes
look at what really takes place at the stately institution . . . Kessler
based his work on interviews with secret service agents,
domestic servants, air force one stewards, military aides,
chefs, and ushers . . . you'll be amazed, as I was, at how
much is actually spent to run the place--many of the
costs being "buried" in numerous budgets that seemingly
have nothing to do with the white house.
In addition, I learned that:
President Johnson had the Secret Service install a buzzer
system to alert him if his wife approached while he was
fooling around with his secretaries.
President Ford's staff, after he lost to Jimmy Carter, showed
its displeasure by eating "anything in the mixed-nuts bowl but
the peanuts. they then threw them all over the place," said
Gerald Pisha, another Air Force One steward.
While the first family pays for the incremental cost of
food--the grocer's bill for a lamb chop--it does not pay for the
higher cost of preparation. Nor does the first family pay for
personal telephone calls, which come out of the annual
appropriation for the Executive Residence, or the flowers,
which cost $252,000 a year.
Rating: 1
Summary: You would've thought I country bumpkin wrote this book.
Comment: Johnson's part was hilarious. I was crying with laughter. But the rest of the book was boring, just a bunch of gossip. No juicy details. No funny lines. And definitely anti-Democrats.
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Title: INSIDE CONGRESS : THE SHOCKING SCANDALS CORRUPTION AND ABUSE OF POWER BEHIND THE SCENES ON CAPIT by Ronald Kessler ISBN: 0671003860 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Inside the CIA by Ronald Kessler ISBN: 067173458X Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents by Cormac O'Brien, Monika Suteski ISBN: 1931686572 Publisher: Quirk Books Pub. Date: February, 2004 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The FBI: Inside the World's Most Powerful Law Enforcement Agency by Ronald Kessler ISBN: 067178658X Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The CIA at War: Inside the Secret Campaign Against Terror by Ronald Kessler ISBN: 0312319320 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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